{"id":2549,"date":"2003-09-04T10:50:42","date_gmt":"2003-09-04T17:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2003-09-04T10:50:42","modified_gmt":"2003-09-04T17:50:42","slug":"a-promise-kept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2003\/09\/04\/a-promise-kept\/","title":{"rendered":"A Promise Kept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a uniter, not a divider.&#8221;  &#8212; George W. Bush<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>Q<\/b>: What about Arabs coming in from other countries?<\/p>\n<p><b>A<\/b>:  Well, it seems to me &#8212; and the weight of evidence indicates &#8212; that Arab Islamists have fully joined the Iraqi resistance in Iraq &#8230;  Iraqi is gradually but steadily replacing Afghanistan and Bosnia as a magnet for many Jihadi recruits to confront the forces of the so-called &#8220;unbelief&#8221;. And it seems to me that anti-American forces must now feel that US forces are very vulnerable in Iraq and could be bogged down in a prolonged guerilla war.  If this particular resistance continues I feel you&#8217;re going to have many more Jihadi fighters joining the Jihad in Iraq against the American forces.<\/p>\n<p><b>Q<\/b>:  So the US occupation is, in a negative way, uniting the forces that normally wouldn&#8217;t have anything to do with one another.<\/p>\n<p><b>A<\/b>:  Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p align='right'>&#8212; <a href='http:\/\/www.npr.org\/rundowns\/segment.php?wfId=1417737'>NPR Interview with Fawaz Gerges<\/a>,<br \/>\na Middle East and international affairs professor<br \/>\nat Sarah Lawrence College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a uniter, not a divider.&#8221; &#8212; George W. Bush * * * * * Q: What about Arabs coming in from other countries? A: Well, it seems to me &#8212; and the weight of evidence indicates &#8212; that Arab Islamists have fully joined the Iraqi resistance in Iraq &#8230; Iraqi is gradually but steadily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}